"Not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives"
“Such as breathe out violence have risen up against me” (Ps 26[27]:12)… The psalmist struggles in the hands of those who pursue and attack him; he is breathless, struggling, but he holds firm; he is assured since God upholds him, God helps him, God leads him, God guides him. Both transported with joy by what he has been able to admire and sing, and struck with groanings by what he has had to suffer, in the end he breathes and cries out: “I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living” (v.13). Oh, how sweet is the Lord’s bounty, immortal, incomparable, eternal, unchanging! And when shall I see you, O bounty of the Lord? “I believe I shall see,” but not in the land of mortals but “in the land of the living.” The Lord will bring me out of the land of mortals who deigned for my sake to accept this land of mortals and die at the hands of mortals…
May we listen also to the voice of the Lord which, from on high, exhorts and consoles us. Let us listen to the voice of him whom we have for father and mother (cf. v.10). For he has heard our groaning, he has seen our sighs, he has sounded the desires of our hearts for “the one thing we ask” (v.4). Thanks to Christ’s intercession, he has favorably received our one prayer, our one request. And while we are completing our pilgrimage in this world, even the road is a long one, he will not refuse what he has promised. He says to us: “Hope in the Lord.” He who has promised is all powerful, he is trustworthy, he is faithful. “Hope in the Lord, be stouthearted” (v.14 alt.). Therefore do not let yourself be troubled.
St. John Chrysostom